Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb base] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Royal secrets , political scandal and life after Norm — the not so Everage housewife-turned-megastar from Down Under gets intimate . |
| 2 | You not only get reliability with microcontrollers , single chip microcomputers , but you get potentially a lot more flexibility . |
| 3 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |
| 4 | Of course they not only reflect ageism in society but help to reinforce it and make it acceptable . |
| 5 | Hence variations in mortality not only indicate variations in morbidity but also variations in the great need for services in caring for those with conditions with a high number of deaths . |
| 6 | These forces not only exclude women from unemployment statistics but also from ‘ legitimate ’ experiences of unemployment . |
| 7 | Railway and port facilities will be needed and higher levels of mine mechanization if coal production is to achieve levels which not only supply 70% of energy demand but afford an opportunity for exports . |
| 8 | Since that time , not only have views of education and educational research changed , but so have views of science . |
| 9 | Since that time , not only have views of education and educational research changed , but so have views of science . |
| 10 | Some languages are peculiar to one region , yet intimately related to others beyond — like the 500 or so Austronesian tongues which not only link speakers in Vietnam and Cambodia with those in Fiji , Malaysia , the Philippines , Sulawesi and Borneo , but also reach out to the inland mountains of Taiwan , the North Island of New Zealand , and to the speakers of Dobu in the d'Entrecasteaux islands and of Trukese on Truk . |
| 11 | Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these . |
| 12 | At the outset this seems an onerous task , as not only do gallons of water lie on the sail but the wind is also trying to hold the sail down . |
| 13 | These and other findings discussed by Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) not only provide evidence in favour of their model of visual word-recognition , but also evidence against other types of model . |
| 14 | Once this happens , the medium is said to not only reduce ammonia/nitrite to nitrate , but go one step further and , by means of the anaerobic bugs , convert nitrate to harmless nitrogen gas . |
| 15 | At least she 'll do something positive and enrich the lives of thousands , not just torture people with guitars . |
| 16 | Third , since 1984 , unions in RENFE have won the right to negotiate over the level of minimum service , and management has not normally run services in excess of that level even if resources were available . |
| 17 | The principle of learning by doing was familiar to all supervisors , not least Käthe Fischel from Prague , one of the youngsters who was sufficiently self-possessed to be recruited for nursery chores . |